Wednesday, August 26, 2009

A number of people left last night's polite and information-packed "town hall" meeting in Reston to find these stuffed under their car windshields. We've cropped out the URL at the bottom to avoid giving these folks any more attention than they deserve.

NO! Freedom of expression only means the the GOVERNMENT can't pass a law to shut them up. You, as a private citizen, can tell them to shove themselves and their "opinions" without violating a thing, in as colorful language as you like as often as you feel like it.

A typical leftist trope. Right out of отдел агитации и пропаганды, the old Soviet Department for Agitation and Propaganda. William Ayers (who co-wrote Dreams from My Father) has some of this in his Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism.

Anonymous 6:13 -- so was that a good thing for Bush to round them up and send them to Gitmo? I mean, they're insulting Obama...don't liberals want that avenged? My understanding reading the average Reston residents' rant is that it's okay to trash Bush but that Obama is untouchable.

Here's the funny thing about this... the URL that was on these flyers is actually for a blog that's critical of the teabaggers, and that has explored, among other things, how they're being cynically manipulated by business interests. It posted the picture presumably to embarrass these folks.

Which begs a question: Did the racist clowns who put these on people's windshields in Reston the other night purposefully add the URL of that blog to discredit it, or were they just too jacked up to notice?

Anonymous 10:55 You has disregarded one cite already. Your emotional desire for unpleasant truths to be declared "not the narrative" hints that Paul Linebarger's book Psychological Warfare (1948) is beyond you. For a more accessible book read: Sword and the Shield (1992) by Vasili Mitrokhin. Note the techniques on disinformation. One of many examples is how the KGB increased racial tension in the US in the 1960's by forging KKK hate letters sent to black leaders.

On Ayers, you may discount any cite, so note the use of language of the sea and sailors in the book Dream of my Fathers. Ayers was a sailor for a short time. Obama never was.

My, this post is certainly getting a lot of attention! We'll happily stand by our decision to crop out the URL from this lovely piece of race-baiting artwork. Who knows what the person who decided it would be a good idea to put them on people's cars was thinking, but the site behind it doesn't deserve a single hit -- whether it's liberal or conservative, or just plain crazy.